If your decision makers have no qualifications in biology - of humans or ecology - it is little wonder that your planet is in such a state.
Here we are in the ER, the doctors have wheeled in a new patient. She is Earth. She has been so very polluted that her prognosis is uncertain. Let us hope that her doctors are qualified in her biology and the biology of her lifeforms. Let us pray they aren't hacks who didn't study her at all.
The linguistics of the radical wire up logic and self control to empathy to root society in core values and promote cooperation. The linguistics of all varieties of extremism wire up emotional indifference to fear (and sometimes logic without empathy). It is biologically impossible to make sound choices without using both logic and empathy in simultaneously, indeed, it becomes a form of slow-mo developmental brain damage that destroys both the connection of the individual to the best version of themselves and society itself. If a mechanic was miswiring a car you'd stop them, extremists (such as alt right) miswire the brain. It's a kind of short circuit that cuts out the most important and most highly evolved human ability - that of love. God gave it. Let's keep it.